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Is there more to than you thought?

In this week's episode of , Chris Lees takes a look at the different layers that make up FIX, peeling the FIX onion to highlight some of the component blocks that you might not be aware of.

Walking through a diagram from the FIX Trading Community, Chris Lees outlines the 4 layers:

Application - Messages constructed from tags from FIX 4.2, FIX 4.4 or FIX Latest.
Encoding - How the tags and values are assembled into a payload on the wire.
Session - How FIX sessions are created and maintained.
Transport - How messages physically move from one party to another.

By understanding these layers, we hope to broaden your horizon and let you identify opportunities to quickly re-use existing FIX constructs in your firm rather than re-inventing the wheel.

For example, could you use FIX JSON to represent objects internally within your system rather than something custom?

Watch more and subscribe over on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/ixeLTB2BcRI

Peeling the FIX Onion - Is there more to FIX than you thought? In this week's episode of , Chris Lees takes a look at the different layers that make up FIX, peeling the FIX onion to highlight some of the...

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Join Chris Lees as we move away from the ‘status quo’ and explore how to approach FIX differently.

In our new YouTube series, we will dive into key themes such as automation, how to be more efficient, plus how to be smarter with the resources available.

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#doFIXdifferently - How to do FIX differently Chris Lees explores doing FIX differently, discussing the systems, tools, and processes that surround FIX, which can help FIX onboarding, and production supp...

Today we launch our a free plugin for the Eclipse IDE.

Developers can now search, save and view trading and market data specifications without ever leaving the IDE, and use simple right-click actions to decode FIX message (or logs) directly from their console window. And because all of our decoding happens locally on your PC, you can rest easy that this is compliance -friendly.

Try it out and let me know what you think.

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Developer Tools | FixSpec Free tools for developers

Launched our free Chrome extension for global trading and market data specifications today.

Search, download and pin trading and market data specs in 3 clicks or less. Always have the specs that you follow close at hand.

Get the extension at http://buff.ly/1nvH9py and register at http://buff.ly/1nvH9pB

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